CVE-2018-5750 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Local attackers can read sensitive kernel address information from dmesg logs via the ACPI SMBus host controller driver.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2018-5750?

CVE-2018-5750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The acpi_smbus_hc_add function in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.15 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from an SBS HC printk call.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5750?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5750?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-5750 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5750 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5750, GHSA-2mwq-2q44-8rc8, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5750.

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